RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Maternal Shoe Size and Infant Birth Weight: Correlation or Fiction?
JF The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine
JO J Am Board Fam Med
FD American Board of Family Medicine
SP 426
OP 428
DO 10.3122/jabfm.19.4.426
VO 19
IS 4
A1 Mark B. Stephens
A1 Debra A. Manning
A1 Amy Arnold-Canuso
A1 David M. Haas
YR 2006
UL http://www.jabfm.org/content/19/4/426.abstract
AB Objective: To determine whether maternal prepregnancy shoe size can be used to reliably predict infant birth weight.Method: This is a cross-sectional study of 111 consecutive patients admitted to the maternity care unit of a small community hospital. Data collected included prepregnancy height, maternal weight, maternal shoe size, maternal age, gravidity, parity, ethnicity, and method of delivery. Infant birth weight was recorded within the first 2 hours of life.Results: There was no correlation between maternal shoe size and birth weight (r = 0.01; P = NS). There was no correlation between shoe size and birth weight when corrected for parity and ethnicity.Conclusion: There is no correlation between maternal shoe and infant birth weight. This anthropometric measure should not be used to estimate infant birth weight.